authorities are urging people to use insect repellent and to come about as much as poss. the farm for the time of the recent us roughest price condo on a trampoline is exposed to god and this time it's a photo shoot for glossy magazine let's have first public appearance since deportation from the united states in a major supply school the magazine is now soon triumphant for breach of contract authorship posted on what's known as pictures of the web. on discrimination on the basis of cost is illegal in india but in parts of the country remains the main function when choosing a life partner despite of this a growing number of couples in the country facing rejection by fun of those under communities as the time that bond on tradition some households it would keep napping charges to prevent that children breaking with the stomach. as the headline is now back to the yoga show so home sales in the u.s. have fallen to the lowest point since nineteen six just three accepting new york

was sales and prices just keep going up and up so i'm going to finds out why the big apple seems immune to the global economic downturn that's next. our tool time winners night goes to a cincinnati ohio woman and believe me she has an unbelievable story to tell thirty six year old colandrea hamilton was pulled over because her two thousand and eight pontiac had very dark tinted windows but when the officers approached komondors car they found ms hamilton cancer unbuttoned and that she had a sex toy in her lap now after police questioned her more she also confessed that she had been masturbating with a sex toy while her friend who was sitting in the passenger seat was playing a porn movie on a laptop computer talk about multitasking this woman was watching porn pleasing herself and driving down the highway all the same time i mean hell i have trouble

just turning the radio station on and paying attention to traffic when i drive so needless to say police took helen into custody and booked her on a misdemeanor count of driving with paired alertness now it was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia since cops found a broken piece of crack pipe but her purse sad so there are there are just so many jokes in this story i can't i don't even know where to begin she was also driving a pontiac and wasn't there a tag line years ago we are driving excitement or maybe you know she was getting her kicks on route sixty six i could go on but i won't anyway the point is tonight's told time winter is callender hamilton but then we remember that she doesn't actually needed tool because she travels with her own. or yesterday we first told you about a major factor contributing the obesity epidemic in the u.s. genetically modified foods quietly become

a staple of the american diet and even though these modified products could be to blame for a growing waistlines the u.s. government just doesn't seem too bothered about it our chief correspondent to hand half. has the story. where my father grew up and. you know poor people were skinny you know poor people nobody's. it's selective foods in selective communities on the shelves and florsheim in the diets of low income households this is an example of what we mean when we say selective foods in selective neighborhoods where here the supermarket one of the very few black neighborhoods in the suburbs of virginia nearly everything on the shelves is made from processing radiance g.m.o. foods either can't or boxes and for the most part you can pick up anything here and see high fructose corn syrup it's something that's contributing to obesity in america would you buy this for your child is that something that you feed your kids at the same field that feed this to my child is a snack like well probably most of the ingredients on here i can't even pronounce

and if i can't pronounce it i certainly don't want to eat it it's been three months since we launched let's move pioneering the eat healthy campaign is first lady michelle obama between what's in our food and how much of it that we eat americans consume more calories fat and sugar today than ever before she's encouraging americans to plant and eat healthy foods is ironic that on the one hand michelle obama is planting and harvesting organic garden any other hand president obama has put michael cereal or as the u.s. food safety is our under my controllers watch the f.d.a. said no testing necessary at all for g.m. was no labeling us a story from intel and we're not going to come on centers are struggling condition obama has placed many key role monsanto or pro genetically engineering people in key positions in the u.s.d.a.

and elsewhere these are the people making key decisions not only for the american food supply but also on which products and food policies are exported to the world market. they're supposed to be protecting the people but what it appears to me is that the department of agriculture is protecting and promoting monsanto what's left of america's organic farming industry is familiar with months until the stranglehold of the u.s. market bill gertz tin of grits and seeds farming in idaho took one center of the supreme court because of claims there around the radio the seeds were contaminated his farmland so this product will be out there so farmers will need to co-exist in the end girt still lost the case and monsanto won it's incredible what is going on obesity corporate domination and the future of america's health it's a lot to swallow for a country where there is an abundance of food and an increasing waistline stretching from the high estimate of the government to your dinner table jan

hoffa's r. t. washington d.c. . now before we get to the debate got to tell you about one story the f.d.a. is currently in the process of approving the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption it's a super salmon the f.d.a. will hold a public hearing in september on whether the salmon should be labeled we modified if they allow it on the market and that's considered a key issue and whether the public will actually buy the fish and have it showing up on their dinner plates the salmon is being developed by aqua bounty technologies of massachusetts and get this it grows to the market size weight in just half of the usual time and there's a reason for its quick growth because it takes hormones from age you know examine and combines it with an ocean pout which is this eli creature and that produces the extra large and very quickly growing salmon so the firm says the genetically modified salmon can avoid the risks of pollution disease and other problems that

you can find in salt water fish farms by raising the salmon at those inland facilities and environmentalist and scientists are watching the f.d.a. and the public's reaction to the salmon. very closely if this is approved it could open the door to a larger range of genetically modified animals being raised for consumption i'm not sure that americans are going to rush to the supermarket for the super salmon especially if they're told that it's genetically modified with eli creature d.n.a. . now the real truth is that most americans probably don't know enough about genetically modified foods to even make an educated decision so i want to know should we trust g.m.o. this well our food really be healthier disease free in the future could it solve world hunger or is it the opposite are we messing with nature to the point where unknown consequences could be life threatening and where agriculture will be

a for profit business or third world countries are exploited and reap the benefits well joining me in the studio to discuss it is gregory congo food safety expert at the competitive enterprise institute and j.d. hansen policy analyst analyst for the center for food safety gentlemen thank you both for being here with you first things first we just showed a story from one of our correspondents where obesity essentially was the main topic is there any kind of evidence out there that directly links genetically modified foods to obesity to the rise in certain diseases in america or none at all i think the only possible link you could make is that. genetically genetically modified crops that are on the market today help farmers grow them better and cheaper and then make food cheaper so cheaper food people eat more that is the only laws of the argument you could make that there's any link between g m o's and obesity do you do you agree with that is our dividends out for the crops that are already genetically

engineered and on the market or in the moon those crops that receive huge government subsidies corn is one of those crops that. receive huge government subsidies. so we end up with a lot of really cheap corn this somewhat noah crisis we have in iowa water that where the chickens and and i want to because close to where they grow a lot of core and it's cheap you pump it into the animals they get fed. but is that dangerous when you pump it into the animals they get fat there's more food it's cheaper is that dangerous to my health should i be worried that one of the problems that is it's really monsanto's patent on its products has limited the ability of researchers even to do experiments with monsanto product and monsanto will go to a researcher and say i'm sorry you don't have

a for mission to use our product for research and some of it we haven't fully tested well that i think is. going to just the pan you shoot in a couple of minutes but. so i said to say they don't know me and you know that about research or can the government force them to do certain studies well and certainly the government has in fact forced the main functions of gio's to do extensive studies for many years they're regulated by the united states department of agriculture almost all of them are regulated by the environmental protection agency as well and then crops to go into the food supply have to be approved by the food drug administration so generally three regulatory agencies are overseeing testing on these products can we trust these regulatory agencies i mean i think that looking even at the oil spill. well i gave everybody quite the idea of what regulation in america really i'm not sure you can trust any regulatory agency any

time on anything regardless countless scientific bodies around the world have looked at the technology biotechnology recombinant d.n.a. technology and have conclude. but there is no new risk associated with genetic modification that isn't already there with other forms of conventional bre but if that's the case my question is you know if scientists worldwide have looked at this why is it that camels are banned in so many other western countries in the u.k. you know in all of europe and japan and australia why are we the only ones doing it with or not banned in australia you can sell them as food in japan you know that you can't grow them and scientific communities of the european union have said that they are safe you can actually grow them in but they just don't want you to know about those they don't want them for themselves because of stupid politics and ridiculous environmental alarmism do you think it's because of stupid politics today that they don't want to also be in part because they're listening to their

consumers. you know it's like the. car skinner they're not having not in great britain because the grocery stores have said we won't buy eggs from somebody that's producing. eggs that have someone all of the time and lo and behold they don't have a seminar problem like we do the same grocers have said we don't want to buy a genetically modified organisms because our consumers don't want it so they don't have much of a market you could but the thing is that america is so much the consumers. you know you could say that in europe perhaps consumers don't want to but i don't think consumers in america have any idea there's so little information out there about it and you know why is it that our products aren't labeled why can't they tell you if g.m. i was hearing this or not because in the united states our regulatory system for food labeling is based on science and not alarmism and for the same reason we don't know why why is a reason why here is the facts and the labeling alarm is

a point here exposes a plant seeds to x. rays and causes random genetic mutations and plants those in the field those don't have to be labeled and more of. moreover groups like center for food safety couldn't care less about the environmental impacts the consumer impacts why because scientists agree that they're safe we have won our lawsuits on the environmental impacts for the u.s. department of agriculture and doing who is better to judge the environmental impacts than a federal judge and the national academy of why why why did he marry in new york a lot even in my auntie's house you know mostly because the u.s. department of agriculture keeps trying to take shortcuts it keeps trying to get products out before it's finished doing environmental reviews and it's you don't just like the. department of interior was cozy with the with the drilling industry and the mining industry part of agriculture is cozy with the big food industry.

and they're. more likely to listen to them than they are. the consumers our group thinks we need to separate food safety agency that actually has food safety as its job one not agriculture department which used to exist to be used to promote agriculture but it's. it's got to conflict it's job is to promote these technologies and the same time assess them that's a built in conflict that it really can't get over full of chidi you know as well as anyone but what the judge found in these cases is that u.s.d.a. didn't examine the economic effects not the ecological effects they were effects on the human environment and they were in the wonderful thing is that the supreme court i read to you in a very clear case the two impacts that that these judges said the u.s.d.a. didn't study was the fact that you won't create more herbicide resistant so

that the plaintiffs who are suing u.s.d.a. wouldn't be able to use those are besides is that an ecological fact know that's an economic besides a concern i mean from all the research that i've done herbicides have increased the assist and we had a lot and the other wanted to to defend the continued use of those services we we refer to these plants that monsanto and dupont have developed as a pesticide promoting plants they haven't you know they haven't developed more drought resistant plants from genetic engineering they've they've developed plants that will use their pesticides now if you're so concerned about herbicide tolerant plants why are you not going after conventionally bred herbicide tolerant plants or mutation bred herbicide tolerant plants here about monsanto and syngenta and but what about b.s.f. german chemical giant uses mutation breeding which we talked about just

a second ago to zap the uncaused random genetic mutations in crop plants to make them tolerant to be served besides they go on the market they are not regulated at all and. couldn't care less that we would love if you want to give us donations so we can do more work. we're at center for food safety dot org and you're with your listeners going all right and we'll see about expanding our work i don't know a lot of the donation but i know that i definitely want more research to be done on this topic because i feel like i'm leaving this debate more confuse the way to get you know it was you know a very complicated show. me where in the room what our research guys i got to wrap it up but they do look at what is here very much look at what they have to go to come on tonight's show those drunken facebook photos that you post can come back to haunt you one country is trying to ban employers from looking at your photos when you apply for a job and with housing sales falling and unemployment numbers rising things look

bleak cross the country but there are you cities here in the u.s. which seem to be immune from those financial woes so i'll tell you more about it when we come back. the street still keeps it seeks. to feel. something outside the kitchen

seems to. like. to. mention going to be soon which brightened. you mean. from some stupid question. don't come. up here is that say much. i mean to me a lot of people are curious you know we t.v. want to be popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic. are they be a smith. it's happened to everyone the nights are days where you drinks so much that well

you just don't remember anything the next day then they skew your friends posting pictures of you out of phase where you can learn all about every stupid mistake you ever made the night before and shirt funny between your friends but when a possible employer finds those reminders of last night it's not so funny anymore but the good news drinkers one countries out to defend your mistakes from last night germany is proposing a new law that would make it illegal for prospective employers to spy on applicants private postings the country is fed up with the lack of privacy for its citizens and this proposal is part of a larger bill it would take it out everything from google street view to companies filming employees during their coffee breaks but anyway back to the facebook proposal this bill would make it illegal to friend a potential employee out of the employee found a way to prove that he was denied a job because of his facebook page and he could legally take the company to court. now you must know it does still allow employers to use professional sites like

linked in to gather information but only an idiot would post embarrassing drunk pictures of themselves on a professional page so here's my question is when is this legislation coming to the states seriously let's just take this bill word for word and force it here in the us i'm sure the lot of people out there agree with me on this one c'mon america let's get our privacy back so people once again can post their drunk pictures on facebook without any fear of persecution. now just the other day the commerce department announced that new home sales fell in the u.s. to the lowest pace on record since nineteen sixty three another sign of the economy is not picking up for average americans the american dream one in which every family owns a home might be disappearing but the good news is that this doesn't really seem to affect one city in the u.s. in the slightest and you guessed it it's new york so what is it about the big apple

that keeps it completely insulated from the troubles with the rest of the country is facing well joining me to discuss this are two correspondent lauren lyster from our studio in new york lauren let me get this straight home sales are falling across the rest of the country but have they actually gone up in manhattan. they have actually improved in manhattan sales of apartments here in manhattan have improved briskly sharply over last year well as you mentioned we've had numbers come out dismal numbers about both existing home sales and new home sales that are down to record lows really making people to doubt any kind of improvement in the economy and definitely no improvement in housing so it's a very deep divide between the rest of the country and what's going on here in manhattan yet talk about a deep divide july's median home sale price in manhattan was nine hundred thousand . in dollars that's the median price and nationwide that's compared to two hundred

eighty two thousand and six hundred dollars i mean that is a big divide that's a shocking difference there. it is a shocking difference and i guess it wouldn't be surprising that the value of the median household or apartment sold in new york would be so much higher than the rest of the country new york is a lot more expensive real estate however what's interesting is that that median sale price is higher than it was quarter over quarter by fourteen and sixteen percent so that median is increasing as this year inches on while it's definitely not the case across the rest of the country and also wall inventory is very low here in manhattan inventory across the country of apartments that are unsold is very very high so it's just almost the exact opposite of what's going on in the rest of the country with sales strengthening and really the manhattan housing market looking very good. talk about you know contrast with what else is going on

around the country i mean we've also found out the wall street bonuses are back to pre-recession levels and they're actually expected to jump up to fifteen percent next year so in this economic environment when wages are falling across the country more and more people are seeking for extended unemployment benefits how is that the bonuses here just keep getting bigger because of the you know the recession never happened. right well what's really interesting is when you look at that how wall street has been able to do so well while the rest of the country is really hurting possibly helping the unemployment rate in new york which is better than it is across the rest of the country which then funnels into the housing market and some of the gains we're seeing in manhattan that are not the case in the rest of the country there are some reasons why why wall street banks are able to benefit while the rest of the country isn't let's talk about some of the fed's programs quantitative easing this is something that the federal. overman did to help wall

street banks lend to consumers lend to people to buy homes and finance their activities and it allowed banks to refinance their loans through the fed at a lower interest rate well when juneau banks have really taken advantage of this and they refinance their loans at a lower rate but they haven't used it to lend to the average person they've used it to pay down their bad debt and improve their balance sheets so that's just one example of how wall street banks have been able to really thrive in this environment while the rest of the country is certainly seeing none of that oh well good for them that really makes me feel great. you know the other place another place in the country where home sales rose is washington d.c. where i stand right now you know so what do you what do you think that tells you when you see washington d.c. where the government is when you see new york where wall street is and these are the only places that are doing well in this economy and what does that look like to

the average american. i mean i think it looks really tough you see two of the major industries you know government we would call an industry but you see government in washington and finance and new york which really are strong and have recovered from the recession much much more greatly than the rest of the country while average americans are really struggling and meanwhile these are the policymakers that are making the decisions that can affect the average american and these are you know the wall street banks that can lead and they can improve the situations of those people that are struggling but meanwhile they seem to be using government programs to improve their business their bottom line and not help the average american so so really you see you know two cities that are insulated but that have a much bigger impact than just their strong housing markets within their city limits definitely makes you realize where all the frustration is coming from you know from average americans or those lauren lyster phone us in from new york.

before we go it's time for our tweet of the day to last night's ken mehlman former chairman and head of president bush's two thousand and four campaign finally came out of the closet now mehlman who's forty three helped run one of the most anti-gay campaigns in modern history so what with the gay community tweet the moment we say one less g.o.p. hypocrite in the closet somebody please out dick cheney i'm betting that some of that anger that he has is because of his repressed sexuality or that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in to make sure to come back tomorrow we'll look into america's favorite past time ripping off the american people the story you won't want to miss in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the ilona show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all at youtube dot com slash the longer show repos the interviews as well as the show and its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. and around the world.

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